Posts Tagged ‘rssmeme’

Seven days into my experiment on Friendfeed, I have begun to see some results. Some  are good, some  are bad. This post is highlighting just one of the negative effects of the experiment. I recently visited rssmeme.com leaderboard, and was shocked to see I am number 4. The experiment has 48 Google Reader shared feeds. Since I am the administrator of the room, it ties all the feeds shared in the room to me. At the time of writing this post, rssmeme shows me as sharing 2172 stories. In actuality I share about 15-20 stories from Google Reader a day. In no way was I intending to “game the system.”

This got me thinking about the other 4 people on the leader-board. It took a combined 48 Google Reader feeds to put me on the board. What about the other 4? There is no way one person alone can share all those stories in a 24 hour period without some sort of assistance. So the question is, how are they doing it?

The rest of the data from the experiment will be detailed and published soon.